diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 494b1b9d3..cdbd880c7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from .bandcamp import BandcampIE
 from .bliptv import BlipTVIE, BlipTVUserIE
 from .breakcom import BreakIE
 from .brightcove import BrightcoveIE
+from .canalplus import CanalplusIE
 from .collegehumor import CollegeHumorIE
 from .comedycentral import ComedyCentralIE
 from .criterion import CriterionIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b1c88876
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import unified_strdate
+
+class CanalplusIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.canalplus\.fr/.*?\?vid=(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _VIDEO_INFO_TEMPLATE = 'http://service.canal-plus.com/video/rest/getVideosLiees/cplus/%s'
+    IE_NAME = u'canalplus.fr'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        u'url': u'http://www.canalplus.fr/c-divertissement/pid3351-c-le-petit-journal.html?vid=889861',
+        u'file': u'889861.flv',
+        u'md5': u'590a888158b5f0d6832f84001fbf3e99',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u'title': u'Le Petit Journal 20/06/13 - La guerre des drone',
+            u'upload_date': u'20130620',
+        },
+        u'skip': u'Requires rtmpdump'
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        info_url = self._VIDEO_INFO_TEMPLATE % video_id
+        info_page = self._download_webpage(info_url,video_id, 
+                                           u'Downloading video info')
+
+        self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(info_page.encode('utf-8'))
+        video_info = [video for video in doc if video.find('ID').text == video_id][0]
+        infos = video_info.find('INFOS')
+        media = video_info.find('MEDIA')
+        formats = [media.find('VIDEOS/%s' % format)
+            for format in ['BAS_DEBIT', 'HAUT_DEBIT', 'HD']]
+        video_url = [format.text for format in formats if format is not None][-1]
+
+        return {'id': video_id,
+                'title': u'%s - %s' % (infos.find('TITRAGE/TITRE').text,
+                                       infos.find('TITRAGE/SOUS_TITRE').text),
+                'url': video_url,
+                'ext': 'flv',
+                'upload_date': unified_strdate(infos.find('PUBLICATION/DATE').text),
+                'thumbnail': media.find('IMAGES/GRAND').text,
+                }